Mystery At Vintém Hill: The Case of the Lead Masks

In August 1966, two electronics technicians climbed a hill overlooking Rio de Janeiro carrying raincoats, a bottle of water, a cryptic note, and homemade lead masks.Days later, they were found dead.There were no signs of violence. No clear cause of death. And more than half a century later, no one knows exactly what happened on Vintém Hill.Were Miguel José Viana and Manoel Pereira da Cruz victims of a failed spiritual experiment? A robbery gone wrong? An elaborate hoax? Or something even stranger?In this episode of Bizarrely: Side Quests into True Crime, we explore one of Brazil's most baffling mysteries, a case filled with missing money, mysterious capsules, strange lights in the sky, and the question that still haunts investigators today:Why were two healthy men found dead wearing homemade lead masks?